#23
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‘W’ is about relationships (‘double U’)
the earliest form of the letter ‹W› was a doubled V used in the 5th century by the earliest writers of ‘old english’; it is from this ‘digraph’ that the modern name “double U” comes)
(this digraph was not extensively used, as its sound was usually represented instead by the runic wynn (‹Ƿ›), but ‹W› gained popularity after the ‘Norman Conquest’, and by 1300 it had taken wynn’s place in common use)
(other forms of the letter were a pair of Vs whose branches cross in the middle)
(an obsolete, cursive form found in the nineteenth century in both English and German was in the form of an “n” whose rightmost branch curved around as in a cursive “v”)
(compare the shape of ƕ)
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👈👈👈☜*“THE 26 ENGLISH LETTERS”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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